Motivation

Cloudflare have realeased thie IPFS Gateway product as part of Crypto-week. The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer to peer web hosting and deliver system aimed at reducing the dependncy on the current server based architecture of the web. Pages on IPFS are accessed using a hash of their content as an address, and those pages are stored on a peer-to-peer system around the IPFS network.

Farnham Street have a good article disecting the wisdom delivered by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger during his USC Law School commencement speech in 2007. The propose that the life advice given can be used an operating system to lead a full and successful life.

Stripe has launched Stripe Press, a book collection that highlights ideas that they think are highly useful. The first round of books available deal with company growth, humans and computers, the future of society and the current geo-political crisis.

This week Seth Godin dropped some extra-mega wisdom on us. For jugglers, catching is the easy part, throwing is more important. In life, putting the working in up front, intiating properly and with a plan, throwing, is way better than reacting all the time.

This is a profound 4 minute video of Mel Robbins dropping a wisdom bomb about why analytically minded people suffer from procrastination and how to overcome it.This is one of those "Of course, that's so obvious, why didn't I think of that!" videos.

In Akimbo episode 12, Seth talks about freelancing, what it takes to become a good freelancer and why to strive to become a category of one. He talks about differentiating your freelance work from the comodity levels of a category.

Seth Godin has recently started a new podcast called Akimbo, in which he discusses a topic and answers questions on the previous week's topic. As with all of Seth's content, it is excellent. Episode 10, The Regular Kind is particularly good.

Another fantastic Wait But Why post, this time about the process and minefield involved in sitting down with yourself and deciding what do you actually want to do in life and how to go about it. I’m only partially through reading this, I had to take a break after the yearning octopus to let it sink in!